Respect
Song by Otis ReddingWikipedia
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Search complete. 15 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Respect".
Sep 14, 2026
AmandaHOST
the Peacock.
AmandaHOST
She's singing R-E-S-P-E-C-T and singing it to her dad.
AmandaHOST
And she's like, "Why won't you trust me, Daddy?" [laughs] And that's the first time I'd ever heard the song R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
AmandaHOST
And then I heard the actual song, and I was like, "Oh, that's what that was."
JodiHOST
That's usually what I would do, too, when my parents were upset with me and felt like I was disrespecting.
Ben EisenHOST
We had Betty Davis Eyes by Jackie DeShannon.
Ben EisenHOST
But the winner in what appears to be a blowout here, no doubt about it, it is our man Otis, Otis Redding, with Respect, the song that made Aretha Franklin into a goddess.
Ben EisenHOST
But before that, it was a song by our man Otis, and I love this version.
Ben EisenHOST
It's fantastic.
Giovanny BlancoGUEST
and uh you know done by made famous by Tiffany and then Crimson Crimson and Clover yeah with by Joan Jett which is amazing I love that song yeah it's my favorite song at first but uh Black Magic Woman Santana original Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood
Ben EisenHOST
Mac yep
Giovanny BlancoGUEST
Respect.
Giovanny BlancoGUEST
Original Otis Redding.
BradHOST
Michael Bolton written and performed Everybody's Crazy.
BradHOST
Otis Redding wrote Respect, but Aretha Franklin sang it.
BradHOST
I did not know that.
BradHOST
I wonder if there's an Otis Redding version of Respect out there.
BradHOST
All right.
BradHOST
Well, the credits are rolling up here.
BradHOST
Michael Bolton written and performed Everybody's Crazy.
BradHOST
Otis Redding wrote Respect, but Aretha Franklin sang it.
BradHOST
I did not know that.
BradHOST
I wonder if there's an Otis Redding version of Respect out there.
BradHOST
All right.
BradHOST
Well, the credits are rolling up here.
LaurieHOST
Finally, she was making it.
LaurieHOST
The irony was that her relationship with Ted was only getting worse, and that was her situation when she was presented with a little song called Respect.
LaurieHOST
It was not written for her.
LaurieHOST
The songwriter was Otis Redding, and he had already recorded it himself, and it was mildly successful.
LaurieHOST
This would get her into a lot of trouble later, but at the time she was Golden Girl, and they were willing to put up with it.
LaurieHOST
Eventually, she would show up with buckets of home-cooked southern food for the whole band and recording crew, and then she'd wail out another smash hit.
LaurieHOST
That's how she followed up Respect with Chain of Fools, A Natural Woman, Since You've Been Gone, and Ate No Whey.
LaurieHOST
This was all in a very short space of time.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Aretha.
Amity BrysonHOST
Except what happens when that song wasn't hers to begin with? Respect was written and originally recorded by Otis Redding.
Amity BrysonHOST
And then Aretha Franklin sang it.
Amity BrysonHOST
And well, whose song is it now? As a musician, I spend a lot of time thinking about composers.
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Amity BrysonHOST
And maybe that's the remarkable thing about interpretation.
Amity BrysonHOST
It does not have to replace what came before it to transform what comes after it.
Amity BrysonHOST
And that's when I started thinking about Aretha again, because there is perhaps no better example than the song we've already heard today, Respect, or R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Otis Redding wrote and recorded Respect in 1965.
Amity BrysonHOST
And then Aretha Franklin recorded it two years later in 1967.
Zan RoweHOST
Shania, what's your final choice?
Shania TwainGUEST
Respect.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What you want.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Baby, I got it.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Take care, TCB.
Shania TwainGUEST
So Aretha Franklin was a songwriter, a brilliant one, and she did not write Respect.
Shania TwainGUEST
Otis Redding did write that song.